CMU names Wallace provost

MOUNT PLEASANT -- Central Michigan University has named Julia Wallace as its new executive vice president and provost.

She will replace Thomas Storch, who retired earlier this year.

Wallace has served as dean for the University of Northern Iowa's College of Social and Behavioral Sciences for the past eight years. Before that she was assistant dean for two years and department chairwoman for six years.

She has a bachelor's degree from the State University of New York at Oswego and received her master's and doctoral degrees from SUNY at Binghamton.